Plectophera (Noun)
Meaning
In some former classifications: name for the Ephemeroptera.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Plectoptera was an order used to classify mayflies in some older classifications, but the correct order name is now used as Ephemeroptera and sometimes under Plectoptera.
- Mayflies were once classified under the order Plectoptera in some former classifications of insects.
- The order name Plectoptera was used in some older classifications for mayflies that now belong to the order Ephemeroptera.
- Entomologists formerly classified mayflies under the orders Plectoptera and Ephemeroptera, with Plectoptera no longer being widely used.
- In some older insect classifications, mayflies were lumped into the Plectoptera, a term no longer widely used in entomology.